Albuquerque police investigating a homicide in Southwest Albuquerque on Sunday, May 23. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis / Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — On Sunday around noon, an Albuquerque Police Department officer driving near Old Town was stopped by two men at Tiguex Park on Mountain near Rio Grande NW.
Lee Marco Cuellar (MDC)
One of the men, 41-year-old Lee Marco Cuellar, said he had just killed his wife, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court. He said his wife’s body was in their Southwest Albuquerque house in a bedroom under a blanket.
The other man, Cuellar’s cousin, said Cuellar had told him the same thing and asked to meet him at the park.